'Constant Terror' In Key Darfur City As Fighting Closes In

Children in eastern Sudan move a water tank to a recently dug well -- the UN says the country is experiencing a humanitarian crisis of 'epic proportions' (Credit: AFP)

Sudanese shop owner Ishaq Mohammed has been trapped in his home for a month, sheltering from violence in El-Fasher, the last major city in the country's vast Darfur region not under paramilitary control.

For more than a year, Sudan has suffered a war between the army, headed by the country's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.